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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers has made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding for an extension. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a band 2.2 rating. The progression of all large scale building projects, including this project, from initial...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding for an extension. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a band 2.1 rating. The progression of all large scale building projects, including this project, from initial...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding for an extension. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a band 2.4 rating. The progression of all large scale building projects, including this project, from initial...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding for an extension. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a band 3.4 rating. The progression of all large scale building projects, including this project, from initial...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: My Department is not in receipt of an application for works in relation to bus parking spaces outside the school referred to by the Deputy. It is open to the school to use funds available to it under its Minor Works Grant for work of this nature.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: As the Deputy may be aware, I announced in September 2008 that the project for the school in question was to proceed to re-tender and construction. My Department's Building Unit is currently awaiting a Stage 2B (Detailed Design) submission, to comply with the new form of Government Construction Contract. Once it is received from the school authority and examined, my officials will be in...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers made an application to my Department for large scale capital funding for an extension. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and assigned a band 2.4 rating. The progression of all large scale building projects, including this project, from initial...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school building to which she refers has recently been completed. The handover of the new building to the school authorities took place at the end of June.

Written Answers — School Facilities: School Facilities (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: The interests of the State, in primary school buildings constructed on sites not in the ownership of the State, is protected by way of long-term legal agreements. These legal agreements generally take the form of a charge registered as a burden on the relevant legal folio and must be surrendered by my Department should the owner of the site wish to dispose of the property. Prior to agreeing...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: As a result of the 2009 Budget provisions for Education, and following subsequent proposals from the management bodies of primary and second level schools, new arrangements were put in place for substitution cover in the period January to June this year. These arrangements will continue for the 2009/2010 school year pending the completion of a review of the supervision, substitution...

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers, for allocating resource teachers and Special Needs Assistants to primary and post primary schools to support children with special needs. The NCSE operates within my Department's criteria in allocating such support. I understand...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: The details of the schools in Counties Roscommon and Leitrim that are in the pre-architectural planning stage are given in the tabular statement. The Deputy should be aware that the details refer to major capital grant applications only and does not include applications for funding under schemes such as the Summer Works Scheme and Emergency Works Scheme. The progression of all large scale...

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: Tabular statements provide details of all the projects in County Tipperary approved for funding under the Summer Works Schemes 2004-2009 and the revised details following appeals of applications not approved in 2009. Summer Works Scheme 2009 Unapproved Applications in North Tipperary County Sector Roll No. School Works requested Reason TIPPER-ARY N.R. Primary School 17543J CLOUGH-JORDAN NS...

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: Each VEC is required to hold at least 10 statutory meetings of its full committee per annum. In addition, it is a statutory requirement, under Section 32 of the Vocational Education (Amendment) Act 2001, that a finance sub-committee is formed to report to the main committee on at least four occasions per year. VECs may also establish other statutory sub-committees, as provided for by...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I can inform the Deputy that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA) which is administered by NEPS. NEPS encourages a staged assessment process whereby each school takes responsibility for...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I wish to advice the Deputy that the position in relation to recently published Ryan Report is that the Government has accepted all of its recommendations and is committed to their full implementation. To this end, Barry Andrews, TD, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs will bring an implementation plan to Government before the end of the month. In relation to the specific case referred to,...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: The project to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of architectural planning. The progression of all large scale building projects, including the project for this school will be considered in the context of my Department's Multi-Annual School Building and Modernisation Programme. However, in light of current competing demands on the Department's capital budget, it is not possible...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I wish to assure the Deputy that there will be no pupil with a special educational need who will be without access to a special needs teacher as a result of the decision to apply the normal rules which govern the appointment and retention of teachers of special classes for pupils with a mild general learning disability. All primary schools were allocated additional teaching resources under...

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: I wish to share my time with the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Haughey and Deputies Tim Dooley and Beverley Flynn.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Batt O'Keeffe: Before I deal with the issues raised in the Labour Party's proposed Bill, it is worthwhile reflecting on the progress we have made in recognising and admitting that children in institutions were not appropriately cared for and how the Government and indeed the entire State has addressed and responded to this matter. In 1999, the Taoiseach's apology was an admission that the State had failed...